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The readings are in the textbook:

Munkres, James. Topology. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 28 December 1999. ISBN: 0131816292. Please refer to the errata sheet (PDF).

Readings Table
WEEK #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Ses 1: Logic and Foundations	Sec. 1-2
2	Ses 2-3: Relations, Cardinality, Axiom of Choice	Sec. 3-9
3	Ses 4-5: Topologies, Closed Sets	Sec. 12-17
4	Ses 6-7: Continuous Functions, Arbitrary Products	Sec. 18-19
5	Ses 8-9: Metric Topologies	Sec. 20-21
6	Ses 10: Quotient Topology	Sec. 22
7	Ses 11-12: Connected Spaces, Compact Spaces	Sec. 23-26
8	Ses 13-14: More about Compactness	Sec. 27-29
9	Ses 15: Well-ordered Sets, Maximum Principle Ses 16: Midterm Exam	Sec. 10-11
10	Ses 17-18: Countability and Separation Axioms	Sec. 30-32
11	Ses 19-20: Urysohn Lemma, Metrization	Sec. 33-34
12	Ses 21: Tietze Theorem	Sec. 35
13	Ses 22-23: Tychonoff Theorem, Stone-Cech Compactification	Sec. 37-38
14	Ses 24-25: Baire Spaces, Dimension Theory	pp. 264-267, pp. 294-296, pp. 304-308, Theorem 50.6
15	Ses 26: Imbedding in Euclidean Space	Sec. 36, pp. 309-313
	Final Exam